WORKSHOP: SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH
LABORATORIO DI INGLESE SCIENTIFICO
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2023/2024 | 2 |
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| Rowena Coles | Mondays 8-10 via email appointment |
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Course entirely taught in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in a foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The workshop aims at developing further knowledge of Scientific English, and specifically the language referring to psychology, that has been acquired during the Course of Scientific English of which the workshop is a natural continuation. The workshop will be held exclusively in English and take on the task of putting into practice acquired knowledge, concentrating above all on oral skills. Specifically, the aims are as follows:
1. Improve speaking and listening skills
2. Manage individual presentations in public
3. Undertake discussions on topics of psychology
4. Develop knowledge of specific terms in psychology
5. Perfect pronunciation and fluency of the spoken language
Program
1. Short individual personal presentations
2. Group work on psychology texts with group interaction
3. Short individual presentations of either student’s thesis at 1st or 2nd degree level or of personal work experience
4. Exercises on the cohesion and coherence, terminology and grammar of scientific texts.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
The main work approach will be group work with the teacher in the role pf group leader.
The teacher will use traditional formal teaching to explain some phonetic and grammatical points.
- Attendance
compulsory
- Course books
The teacher will give out photocopies during the workshop.
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